Beryl gia pragmatikous antres (was: Re: Beryl)

[Christos Ricudis]

Jimmy Angelakos wrote:
> Oles oi plhrofories pou mporei na xreiastei kapoios gia egkatastash
> Beryl me AIGLX, XGL h Nvidia beta drivers briskontai edw (analytikes
> odhgies gia ka8e distro):
>
> http://wiki.beryl-project.org/
>   

Ki etsi loipon, eipa na dokimasw ki egw to beryl, mia poy den exw xrono 
na balw thn GPU ths GeForce FX 5200 mou na kanei o,tidhpote pio 
shmantiko apo to na skiazei para8yra (blepe GPGPU).

Debian testing.

H diadikasia einai h klassikh, pou oloi osoi gennh8hkame me to UNIX mesa 
sto braki mas, gnwrizoume kai agapame :

* Go to http://www.beryl-project.org/releases.php

* Download beryl-core-0.1.9999.1.tar.bz2

* Initial setup gia na dieykolyn8ei to compilation tou ypoloipou 
systhmatos :

Edit /etc/ld.config, append /usr/local/beryl/lib/

export  PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/beryl/lib/pkgconfig/

* ./configure --help ; ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/beryl/ 
--other-interesting-options ; make

* Install missing -dev dependencies using apt-get and reiterate previous 
step.

* make install ; ldconfig

* Ksanaphgainete sto prwto asteraki kai epanalabete thn idia diadikasia 
gia beryl-plugins, beryl-plugins-unsupported, beryl-manager, aquamarine, 
emerald, emerald-themes. There are almost no interesting configure 
options here. To aquamarine 8a gkriniaksei poy kanete compile to systhma 
sto /usr/local/beryl/ enw to ypoloipo KDE brisketai sto /usr/, opote to 
boh8ate bazontas ekei pou prepei ena KDEDIRS=/usr/local/beryl:/usr:$KDEDIRS

* To heliodor poios to gamei, only sun uses gnome out there.

* Ftanontas sto beryl-settings-* anakalyptoume thn omorfia enos 
systhmatos pou ypoti8etai oti ftiaxthke gia na kanei th zwh kapoiwn pio 
eykolh, alla egw akoma aporw POIOI einai aytoi : Circular pkgconfig 
dependencies.

Sygkekrimena, to beryl-settings exei dependency sto 
beryl-settings-bindings, pou exei dependency sto beryl-settings.

Spate to dependency kanontas edit to configure script tou 
beryl-settings-bindings. Kapou sth grammh 20205 8a breite ena :

BERYLSETTINGS_REQUIRES="\
berylsettings >= 0.1.2 \
glib-2.0 >= 2.6 \
x11 \
"

To allazete se

BERYLSETTINGS_REQUIRES="\
glib-2.0 >= 2.6 \
x11 \
"

kai proxwrate.

* Afou egkatasta8ei to beryl-settings-bindings kai to beryl-settings, 
pros8etete pali th grammh kai ksanakanete compile kai install to 
beryl-settings-bindings. Ayto einai apolytws axrhsto sthn prokeimenh 
periptwsh, mia poy den allazei tipota, alla to pkgconfig einai toso 
anwmalo pou to fobamai sxedon oso kai to libtool, opote protimw na mh 
mou gkriniazei.

* Exoume ftasei, aisiws, sto telos tou compilation. To mono pou 
xreiazetai pleon einai na poyme sth brwmerh kai trisa8lia python na 
briskei to brwmero kai trisa8lio beryl-settings python extension (nai, 
einai arrwstoi) se kapoio brwmero kai trisa8lio meros. Epeidh 
sixainomaste thn brwmerh kai trisa8lia python kai bariomaste na broume 
to swsto tropo na ginei ayto (o opoios perilambanei editing kapoiou 
brwmeroy kai trisa8liou site.py arxeiou), apla antigrafoume ta brwmera 
kai trisa8lia arxeia berylsettings.so kai berylsettings.la apo to 
brwmero kai trisa8lio /usr/local/beryl/lib/pythonx.y/site-packages/ sto 
akoma pio brwmero kai trisa8lio /usr/local/lib/pythonx.y/site-packages/. 
Oso to kanoyme ayto, sixtirizoume tous developers poy katsane kai 
grapsane oloklhro composite manager se C, alla bariontousan na grapsoun 
ena GUI me deka menu kai pente panels se kati ligotero brwmero kai 
trisa8lio apo python-gtk.

Olh h diadikasia einai SAFWS pio eykolh, an den 8elete na kanete install 
to beryl sto /usr/local/beryl/, opws *prepei*, alla sas aresei na 
magarizei me ta brwmera kai trisa8lia arxeia tou to /usr/ sas. Wstoso, o 
sygkekrimenos tropos egkatastashs dieykolynei apisteyta to teleytaio 
bhma (deite parakatw).

* Pros8etoume th grammh

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "On"

sto /etc/X11/xorg.conf mas, device section. Epishs pros8etoume to section :

Section "Extensions"
  Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

* Kanoume restart ton X server mas, kai trexoume to

/usr/local/beryl/bin/beryl-manager

* Dior8wnoume thn anakatwsoura pou proklh8hke apo to skotwma tou window 
manager mas, kai blepoyme oti sto desktop tray exei proste8ei ena 
entelws kakogousto, pelwrio, katakokkino trigwno malakidi poy paristanei 
ton hmipolytimo li8o, kai poy kala 8a kanoyn na tou allaksoun icon prin 
apo to beryl 1.0 release gia na mhn tous parei o diaolos ton GUI 
designer. Me deksi click sthn ahdia, 8a deite diafora endiaferonta 
options pou mporeite na paiksete mazi tous. Kala 8a kanete na diabasete 
kai to "beryl newbies" document sto beryl wiki

* Pername thn ypoloiph mia wra paizontas me ta transparencies kai ton 
hli8io kybo. Gyrw sta tria tetarta apo th mia wra ksodeyoume gia na 
katebasoume mia gymnh fwtografia ths Alicia Silverstone kai na baloume 
epanw ths ena semi-transparent para8yro me to braki pou briskoume sto 
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/valium_doll/01JJbrown.jpg . 
Karfwnoume to para8yro sto desktop kai paizoume me to title bar tou 
prospa8wntas na epityxoume ena real-life effect katebasmatos tou 
lastixou gia na doume katw apo to transparent para8yro xwris na 
metakinh8ei to braki.

* Afou bare8oume, kanoume ena rm -rf /usr/local/beryl kai epistrefoume 
sthn pragmatikh zwh.

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